“…As the starting reference set for the zero-point we used the velocity measurements performed by us with the fiber spectrograph at the du Pont telescope with the same detector, including previous ones described in earlier papers (Quintana et al 1995, observing sessions Q01, Q02, Q03, Q04, Q05, Q06, Q07, M01, M03, and Quintana et al 2000, observing sessions listed in Table 1: QC01, QC02, QC03, QC04, QC05, QC06, QC07, LC97, not individually reported before). We earlier showed (Quintana et al 1995 andQuintana et al 2000) that there were no systematic velocity differences between observations carried out with the fiber spectrograph and the earlier Reticon spectrograph (both built by S. Shectman, Shectman 1989), mounted at the du Pont Telescope, as both used the same Carnegie Image Tube as final detector, used for the much earlier observations with the same telescope reported in (Quintana et al 1995). In most sessions we also carried out repeated observations of some galaxies (as listed in the database), to check that we had a consistent velocity system and to reduce statistical errors.…”